If you detect a noise on your vehicle, you are right to be concerned of it and take it seriously, although it is conceivable that nothing critical will occur, it is also conceivable that it is the signal of a more critical fix. A noise that occurs in the trunk of your Dacia Sandero is thankfully more a sign of a small correction or service, rather than a complicated one. To support you in your research, we have chosen to generate this content page to present you with the most likely solutions to your issue. First we will see that this trunk noise on your Dacia Sandero can come from accumulated dirt, the issue can also come from a loose lock and finally, it can even come from a simple rivet that sits inside your bumper.
Noise in the trunk Dacia Sandero : Accumulated dirt that triggers poor closing
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We will therefore begin with a trunk noise on your Dacia Sandero induced by dirt accumulated on your joints, lock for example. Indeed, it is conceivable that on a vehicle that is already a few years old and whose cleaning is not always a main concern or that the roads used are not very clean that dirt collects at the trunk gasket. This issue triggers a poor closure of the trunk and a noise that can sound like a crack. To check if you are in this situation, open the trunk of your Dacia Sandero, check the state of the gasket that goes around the entire tailgate and clean it with a wet/soap cloth, dry the whole thing and try to close the trunk and take a dentred road to see the improvement. If this is not the case, continue to the other hypotheses that will probably give a solution. It is conceivable however that you have a trunk noise on your Dacia Sandero that is connected to other origins such as shock absorbers, do not hesitate to read this content page on the noises at the back of a Dacia Sandero.
Noise in the trunk of my Dacia Sandero : Loose lock, clicking noise
Second probability, you may also, over time, be the victim of a locking system that became loose. And this is one of the most likely possibilities. Indeed, knowing a trunk noise on your Dacia Sandero is very frequently connected to this issue. Different solutions are available to you subject to the level of play you have with your lock. The first is that sometimes the offset is minimal and a simple greasing of the mechanism with thick grease is sufficient to eliminate the problem. Secondly, it is also conceivable that you really have a lot of play on your lock and that each time the trunk “jumps”, in which case you would have to remove the cover that allows access to the lock (inside the trunk). Then, using torx screws, you unscrew the striker attached to the threshold, just push it back a little towards the inside of the trunk and tighten it again. Be sure you check the centering of the striker in relation to the trunk lock. If after examining the trunk of your Dacia Sandero closes badly, it means that you have moved it too far, repeat the process by pushing the striker less.
Noise in my trunk Dacia Sandero : Rivet following plate swap in the trunk/ bumper
Finally, one of the last possibilities. It is that following a license plate swap you were unfortunate and that a piece of rivet fell backside your plate. Indeed, when a plate change is done, to take off the old one the process used is to drill the existing rivets to be able to released the license plate. Unfortunately, it can happen that part of the rivet falls into the hole of the bumper and it will therefore wander inside the bumper and can create an annoying noise. To check that it is this problem you are experiencing, and that you have a trunk noise on your Dacia Sandero linked to a rivet, you will need to check that it is in the tailgate open it and stir it to discern the noise. If this is your situation, you will have to remove the linings from the trunk to remove it. Finally, if it is your bumper, it is in this rarer and more disturbing situation, you will have to take off the bumper to remove the bits of rivet that are running around.
